Hope is NOT a Plan
Latest Episodes
How to Take More Ownership at Work | Episode 24
The Top 5 Reasons Taking Ownership at Work is Hard explores why owning our situation at work is the crucial first step towards improving ourselves, our teams, and our organizations.
How to Complete a Project YOU Self-Check | Five-Minute Friday 19
I’m checking in and we’re going to recap how you can lead the most important project to ever exist: Project YOU!
How to Plan for Project YOU! | Episode 23
I walk the listener through standard project phases with a twist - The project is YOU!
How Rudyard Kipling's "If" Applies to 2024 America | Five-Minute Friday 18
I'm re-sharing my custom version of Rudyard Kipling's "If" with focus on 2024 America.
How to Make Our Nation's Biggest Events Safer | Episode 22
In this episode, How to Make Our Nation's Biggest Events Safer, I'm sharing insight on how Federal, State, and Local agencies can and should be working together.
How to Shepherd Your Lost Team Members | Five-Minute Friday 17
oday's episode, The Parable of the Lost Team Member, is inspired by the Parable of the Lost Sheep in Luke 15 in the Bible.
How Project Managers Can Wield a Shepherd’s Crook | Episode 21
I’m sharing how Project Managers can redirect the lost flock, or stakeholders, which can become lost during projects.
How to be imperturbable like Ulysses S. Grant | Five-Minute Friday 16
In Three Keys to Imperturbability, Kevin Pannell shares three focus areas you can practice bringing more steadiness to your stressful times.
How The Battle of Gettysburg is a Leadership Masterclass | From the Archives
In Leadership Lessons from the Battle of Gettysburg, I share what I learned by touring the battlefield in 2019 as part of a Staff Ride leadership development course.
How my Dad Faced Death with a Courageous Heart | Five-Minute Friday 15
In Facing the End with Courage: My Dad's Example, I share how my father showed true courage in the face of death.